Keywords: Fabrication plants
Item 12248
Bath Iron Works fabrication plant, Brunswick, ca. 1955
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1955 Location: Brunswick Media: Photograph, print
Item 5778
Portland Company 108 mm shell manufacturing, ca. 1917
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1917 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Northern Threads: Silhouettes in Sequence, ca. 1780-1889
A themed exhibit vignette within "Northern Threads Part I," featuring a timeline of silhouettes from about 1775 through 1889.
Exhibit
Northern Threads: Civil War-era clothing
An exhibit vignette within "Northern Threads, Part 1," featuring American Civil War civilian and military clothing, 1860 to 1869.
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - 1920-1930 - Page 1 of 3
"… ready to thread onto looms and be made into fabrics marketed as artificial silk. The name "rayon" was adopted in the mid-1920s."
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - Mid to Late Nineteenth Century
"Use of traditional plant, animal, and mineral based dyes continued for some time while new dye "know how" and the chemical dye industry steadily grew."
Story
My 40 years in Forestry and the Paper Industry in Maine
by Donna Cassese
I was the first female forester hired by Scott Paper and continue to find new uses for wood.
